AXELROD.----LETTER TO LENIN.
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which I wrote in my head today.
Of course, if
Berg [Martov] or sister [Zasulich] have written or even only
b e g u n  to write a review, then God help you—do not transmit to them
my latest proposal—otherwise they will out of magnanimity yield to me.
Here already before my return, thanks to Sh.'s efforts,
a circle has formed that meets regularly every week to debate
various questions of a party character. I have so far regularly attended
the circle's meetings. From now on it will
meet 2 times a week, read Lenin's book 10) and conduct debates about it... Dv. 11) and Sh[our] are in great rapture over
it. And I, imagine, have only glanced into it. But I have
many circumstances that mitigate my guilt.
It is a heated
time now.
And yet...
How are you? N[adezhda Konstantinovna], Ev/12) [Deich]
and Berg [Martov]?
And B. N. [Noskov] has completely abandoned me—or
will he come here yet?
With this I firmly shake your hand and send greetings to all whom you
deem fit to pass it on to.
Your V. A.

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# 16.
LENIN. LETTER TO AXELROD.

Dear P. B.!
I have just received your letter and hasten to
reply. Your idea about placing the article *) in Zarya instead of
the pamphlet [Supplement] to Iskra) is very pleasing to me in general
and particularly in view of our plans about moving to Lon
don. (Evg[eny] [Deich] is writing you about this) 2). We have already
transcribed about half of our article, and I will send it to you immediately
upon completion: the transcription work is now proceeding rapidly. It will be excellent
to place an article of a journal character precisely in Zarya.
As for changes in the address of the letter to Iskra, if they are
required at all, they will be insignificant.
No one, as far as I know, has begun to write or intends to write
a review of the "Eve of Rev[olution]". Therefore write by all means: Zarya
is precisely lacking reviews.
As regards the program, I will send you in a few days
my remarks on G. V.'s [Plekhanov's] draft (now they are with a sick
friend 3: I showed them to local friends here, and they advised against
sending them to G. V. [Plekhanov] in view of the arising proposals about an
"arbitration or conciliation" commission 4). But it would be very pleasant for me
to send them to you personally, so that you could see
my Bedenken 5, set forth there systematically. As for the congress 6) I do not
think that it could n o w
lead matters to a favorable conclusion. I do not know what the entire
collegium will decide (we will acquaint it with your plan today), but I
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LENIN. ----LETTER TO AXELROD.

strongly fear that in the absence of an already prepared
draft, in the a b s e n c e  o f  a  n e w  c o m p o s i t i o n  o f
v o t i n g  m e m b e r s,  in the absence of a f i r m  a g r e e m e n t
about how precisely and between whom to vote and w h a t  s i g n i f i c a n c e  t o
a t t a c h  t o  t h e  v o t e s, our Zurich congress will again end in nothing.
And as for the importance of publishing the program you are a t h o u s a n d
t i m e s  right.
Have you seen the "Calendar" of Struggle? 7) How did you like it?
The "Rev[olutionary]
Russia" 8) has come out.
They work!!
F o r g i v e  me for the brevity of the letter and its hasty composition. I am
in great hurry.
Your [illegible].